Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Sociology
Reader 1
Phil Zuckerman
Reader 2
Erich Steinman
Reader 3
Thomas Koenigs
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© 2017 Anna C Bonsey
Abstract
This study explores college students’ attitudes towards hookup culture, and how these attitudes potentially shift over their four years in college. More specifically, I examine how being a student at a women’s liberal arts college influences students’ interactions with the hookup culture, and how the education they receive shapes these interactions. I conducted in-depth interviews with 11 students at Scripps College, all in the spring semester of their senior year. I investigate themes including: pluralistic ignorance, sex positivity and female empowerment, criticisms of gendered stereotypes, and race and class dynamics within the hookup culture.
Recommended Citation
Bonsey, Anna C., "Navigating Hookup Culture: Critical Perspectives from Students in Their Senior Year" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 999.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/999
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
